Good question, I have no clue why those comments got as many up- and down-votes. Maybe your comment was too confrontational on a personal level?
I’m just a bit opposed to the entire “utility” narrative. It’s far too simplistic in my eyes. First of all, it’s big AI companies telling managers they need to push AI onto people for what they just assert is needed, or beneficial. (While selling their product. And everyone else might be a bit too gullible.) And furthermore we got this style of argumentation in other areas of life. Starts with “medication” with no scientific backing, yet people buy it. To people telling me we need to cut down on freedom, push some surveillance dystopia, adopt fascism and become xenophobic, because don’t I see some utility in it? There sure is a few criminals out there?! …I think it’s all the same flawed debate. Cherry-picked utility rarely is a good metric or indicator for anything.
No worries. I might have a weird style of talking. Take care. Because the world probably doesn’t care whatever opinions we uphold, and will try ro replace everything with text predictors anyway 😖
But yeah, I can’t get over all the piracy either. Some activists died because of pirating stuff online, they’re constantly trying to shutdown Anna’s Archive and all other piracy sites. Just totally fine once big AI companies do it.
That wasn’t a pro-AI comment, though. Not at all.
I am genuinely so confused. Can you explain wtf is going on as though I’m approximately 4.67 years old? /hj
Good question, I have no clue why those comments got as many up- and down-votes. Maybe your comment was too confrontational on a personal level?
I’m just a bit opposed to the entire “utility” narrative. It’s far too simplistic in my eyes. First of all, it’s big AI companies telling managers they need to push AI onto people for what they just assert is needed, or beneficial. (While selling their product. And everyone else might be a bit too gullible.) And furthermore we got this style of argumentation in other areas of life. Starts with “medication” with no scientific backing, yet people buy it. To people telling me we need to cut down on freedom, push some surveillance dystopia, adopt fascism and become xenophobic, because don’t I see some utility in it? There sure is a few criminals out there?! …I think it’s all the same flawed debate. Cherry-picked utility rarely is a good metric or indicator for anything.
Okay, so I think we agree. Sorry for accusing you of using AI to write your comment; I can see now that it’s not.
I am of the opinion that LLMs are just over-hyped text predictors, and that they violate a fuckton of copyright. And they’re pretty fascist, too.
No worries. I might have a weird style of talking. Take care. Because the world probably doesn’t care whatever opinions we uphold, and will try ro replace everything with text predictors anyway 😖
But yeah, I can’t get over all the piracy either. Some activists died because of pirating stuff online, they’re constantly trying to shutdown Anna’s Archive and all other piracy sites. Just totally fine once big AI companies do it.